ALEN BLANCO HERNANDEZ 2035
The Plan
Building the Rivers
We Deserve
Dr. Gabriel Pidomson’s plan is focused on the conditions that shape daily life in Rivers State: reliable power, safer communities, better roads, stronger schools, working healthcare, environmental responsibility, honest governance, and development that reaches every Local Government Area.
This agenda reflects Dr. Pidomson’s public call for a Rivers State where businesses can thrive with stable power, security, infrastructure, and transparent governance; where healthcare works; and where justice is timely and accessible.
THE PLAN
VISION
We will rebuild our economy, modernize our infrastructure, protect our environment, strengthen education, and restore trust in government.
This is not an empty promise.
This is our plan.
PRIORITIES
What Businesses Are Facing
Rivers State already has major economic strength: Port Harcourt commerce, Obio-Akpor business activity, the Onne Port Complex, Bonny’s strategic role, the Eleme industrial corridor, oil and gas activity, fishing communities, farming areas, transport operators, markets, and thousands of small businesses that keep families working.
The Opportunity
The state can do more to connect these strengths. A stronger Rivers economy should help the trader in Mile One, the mechanic in Rumuokoro, the farmer in Etche, the fisher in Andoni, the transporter moving goods through Eleme, the entrepreneur in Port Harcourt, and the investor looking at Onne, Bonny, or Trans-Amadi.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson’s economic priority is to make Rivers State easier to operate in, invest in, hire in, and build from. That means improving the conditions businesses need every day: stable power, safer commercial areas, better roads and transport links, clearer government processes, and stronger support for local enterprise.
Goal Focus areas:
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Stable power for business districts and productive sectors
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Support for small businesses, markets, and local enterprise
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Better access for farmers, fishers, traders, and transport operators
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Investment-friendly processes for port, industrial, and service businesses
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Skills development tied to real jobs and local industries
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What Young People Need
Young people across Rivers State need more than certificates. Students in Port Harcourt, Bori, Ahoada, Omoku, Okrika, Degema, Etche, Bonny, and riverine communities need schools that prepare them for work, enterprise, technology, public service, trades, and leadership.
The Opportunity
Rivers State has the human talent to compete in engineering, maritime services, construction, health, technology, agriculture, oil and gas support services, creative work, and entrepreneurship. Education should connect young people to those opportunities.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson’s education priority is to strengthen learning conditions, support teachers, expand technical and vocational training, and create better school-to-work pathways. Education should build competence, discipline, employability, and leadership, not just exam results.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Better classroom conditions and learning materials
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Teacher support, training, and accountability
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Technical and vocational training linked to local industries
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Digital skills, entrepreneurship, and innovation
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Youth pathways into jobs, apprenticeships, and enterprise
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What Safety Means Day to Day
Security affects daily life in every part of the state: market activity, school attendance, transport routes, business hours, church services, community events, and movement between urban, upland, and riverine communities.
The Opportunity
Rivers State can build stronger local security coordination by working with security agencies, traditional institutions, community leaders, youth groups, market associations, transport unions, schools, and residents.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson has named security as part of his vision for Rivers State. The campaign should focus on practical safety systems: stronger local coordination, faster emergency response, better intelligence sharing, and prevention programs that address youth unemployment and community-level risks.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Stronger local security coordination
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Faster emergency and incident response
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Protection for schools, markets, worship centers, and transport routes
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Community-based crime prevention
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Youth programs tied to jobs, skills, and productive activity
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What Keeps Communities Connected
Infrastructure in Rivers is not just about roads. It is about how people move through Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor, how goods reach Onne and Bonny, how communities connect through jetties and waterways, how students get to school, how patients reach health centers, and how businesses move supplies.
The Opportunity
Rivers State can plan infrastructure around daily use: trade corridors, schools, health centers, markets, flood-prone areas, jetties, transport routes, and riverine access. The Eleme-Onne axis, for example, is a key route connected to the Federal Ocean Terminal, Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone, Eleme industrial hub, and access toward several LGAs.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson’s infrastructure priority should be framed around practical delivery: roads people can use, drainage that reduces flooding, facilities that are maintained, and transportation systems that connect communities to jobs, schools, healthcare, markets, and public services.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Roads and transport links
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Drainage and flood-prone community access
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Schools, health centers, and public facilities
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Jetties, waterways, and riverine connectivity
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Maintenance systems that protect public investment
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What Is at Stake for Land, Water, and Air
In Rivers State, the environment is not abstract. It affects drinking water, fishing, farming, health, mangroves, creeks, riverine movement, and livelihoods. Ogoniland remains one of the clearest examples of how environmental damage can affect public health, land, water, and community trust. UNEP’s Ogoniland assessment found serious oil contamination and noted that restoring heavily impacted mangroves and swampland could take decades.
The Opportunity
Rivers State can pursue development while protecting the resources people depend on. Cleaner waterways, accountable remediation, safer communities, and responsible development standards are not anti-business. They are necessary for long-term economic stability.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson’s environmental priority should focus on stronger accountability, cleaner communities, protection of waterways, public health safeguards, and responsible development in oil-producing, riverine, farming, and fishing communities.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Cleaner waterways, creeks, and communities
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Environmental accountability and remediation
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Protection of fishing, farming, and riverine livelihoods
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Public health protections in affected areas
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Responsible development standards for land and water use
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What Builds Public Trust
People lose trust when projects are announced but not completed, public spending is unclear, appointments feel disconnected from communities, and citizens do not know where to take complaints. This matters in Port Harcourt just as much as it matters in Ahoada, Bori, Omoku, Bonny, Okrika, Abua-Odual, and riverine communities.
The Opportunity
Government can be made more visible and accountable. Citizens should know what projects are approved, where funds are going, what stage work has reached, who is responsible, and how to raise concerns.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson has called for transparent governance and timely, accessible justice. ADC’s official platform also emphasizes transparency, accountability, inclusion, women, youth, the diaspora, and persons with disabilities.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Project tracking and public reporting
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Clearer government processes
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Responsible public spending
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Timely access to justice
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Citizen feedback and community engagement systems
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The Local Reality
Healthcare access looks different across Rivers. A family in Port Harcourt may need better hospital systems. A mother in a riverine community may need safer access to maternal care. A child in a rural area may need immunization, basic medicine, and a functioning primary health center close to home.
The Opportunity
Rivers State can strengthen healthcare from the ground up by improving primary health centers, community outreach, maternal and child health, staffing, supplies, emergency referrals, and access for underserved communities.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson has spoken about “a Rivers State where healthcare works.” The campaign should define that in practical terms: staffed facilities, basic supplies, better referrals, maternal care, child health, and healthcare access beyond the most developed urban areas.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Primary healthcare centers
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Maternal and child health
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Community health outreach
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Reliable staffing, equipment, and basic supplies
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Better access in rural and riverine communities
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What Statewide Representation Requires
Rivers State is made up of many peoples, languages, traditions, faith communities, professional groups, youth networks, women’s groups, riverine communities, upland communities, urban neighborhoods, and rural settlements. A government that wants to serve the whole state must listen beyond political circles and campaign structures.
The Opportunity
Rivers State can build a more responsive government by creating clearer channels for communities to raise concerns, contribute ideas, and participate in decisions that affect them. Traditional institutions, community leaders, faith leaders, market associations, youth groups, women’s groups, professional bodies, persons with disabilities, and the diaspora all have knowledge that should help shape public priorities.
The Priority
Dr. Pidomson’s approach is rooted in respect for Rivers people in all their diversity. Community inclusion means more than visiting communities during campaign season. It means listening before decisions are made, respecting local identity and culture, and ensuring that no group is treated as invisible in the work of government.
Goal Focus Areas:
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Community consultation before major decisions
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Respect for local cultures, languages, and traditional institutions
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Clearer channels for citizens to raise concerns
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Inclusion of women, youth, elders, persons with disabilities, and the diaspora
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A government presence that listens across all 23 Local Government Areas
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ACTION PLAN
A plan is only useful if people can see how it will be carried out.
In alignment with the ADC’s stated values around transparency, accountability, inclusion, knowledge, leadership, and “radical openness," Dr. Pidomson's approach is grounded in practical delivery, public reporting, and coordination across state institutions, Local Government Areas, communities, and private-sector partners.
1. Start with local needs
Policy must be shaped by the realities of Port Harcourt, Obio-Akpor, Eleme, Bonny, Bori, Okrika, Ahoada, Omoku, Etche, Degema, Andoni, Opobo/Nkoro, Abua-Odual, and communities across all 23 Local Government Areas.
2. Match projects to daily use
Roads, schools, health centers, markets, jetties, drainage, business corridors, and public facilities should be planned around how people actually live, work, trade, study, and move.
3. Track public projects
Citizens should be able to know what projects have been approved, where they are located, what stage they are in, and how public resources are being used.
4. Work with the right partners
Rivers State needs coordination with communities, traditional institutions, security agencies, educators, healthcare workers, businesses, transport unions, market groups, youth leaders, women’s groups, and the diaspora.
5. Measure results
Government should be judged by visible improvements: safer communities, shorter travel times, functioning facilities, stronger local businesses, cleaner environments, and services people can actually use
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What This Means for You
For business owners
A government that reduces barriers, improves commercial security, supports local enterprise.
For young people
More focus on skills, jobs, digital training, apprenticeships, entrepreneurship, and pathways into productive work.
For parents and families
Better schools, safer communities, stronger healthcare access, and a government focused on the conditions families need to plan their future.
For riverine communities
Greater attention to jetties, water transport, health access, emergency response, fishing livelihoods, and public services beyond the urban center.
For working professionals
A state economy that attracts investment, supports industries, improves infrastructure, and creates stronger conditions for employment and enterprise.
For farmers and fisherfolk
Better market access, rural roads, environmental protection, storage, transport, and support for the people who feed and sustain local economies.
For traditional institutions
A government that creates clearer channels for chiefs, community associations, faith leaders, youth groups, and local organizations to raise concerns before decisions are made.
For the Diaspora
A serious channel to stay connected, contribute expertise, support development conversations, and remain part of Rivers State’s future.
Dr. Gabriel Pidomson
A Statewide Committment
Rivers State is not one city, one region, or one political base. This plan is for Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor. It is for Ogoni, Kalabari, Ikwerre, Etche, Ekpeye, Andoni, Opobo, Bonny, Okrika, Ndoni, Abua, and every community that makes Rivers State what it is. It is for riverine communities that need safe transport and health access. It is for business corridors that need power, security, and roads. It is for rural communities that need schools, clinics, farming support, and market access. It is for young people who need more than promises. It is for families who want government to work. No Local Government Area should be ignored. No community should be treated as an afterthought.
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Aligned with ADC Values
Dr. Gabriel Pidomson’s plan reflects the values of the African Democratic Congress: transparency, accountability, inclusion, knowledge, leadership, equity, and responsible public service.
ADC has stated that it is working to move politics beyond flawed elections, political rhetoric, and theatrics toward stronger institutions, systems, and processes. The party also emphasizes inclusion of women, youth, the diaspora, and persons with disabilities.
We shall run a campaign of ideas, courage, discipline and people-centered solutions."
Dr. Gabriel Baritulem Pidomson
The plan for Rivers State is not built around slogans. It is built around the work government must do: protect communities, support enterprise, improve public services, and make development visible across the state.
Join the movement
Together, we can build a stronger, safer, more prosperous Rivers.